| The fabric and textile industry is the most leading | | | | Near East around 8000 BC. The cultivation and usage |
| industry in the world today. The use of cloth in today's | | | | of cotton as a clothing was common in the Indus |
| world is more than ever. Today we use fabric for | | | | Valley civilization in around 4000BC. Around the same |
| everything, starting from bed sheets to grand piano | | | | time, linen was also produced in ancient Egypt. Many |
| covers. Yet, before we started dressing our piano with | | | | weaving techniques and tools were invented in Egypt |
| a grand piano cover, it was the human body itself | | | | during these times. Usage of linen was so much in |
| which was covered and decorated with clothes. | | | | Egypt that ancient Egyptians even used it in |
| It is said that the earliest of men used to cover | | | | mummification of their dead. All of these facts are |
| themselves with leaves and animal skin. Even in those | | | | very eminent from the art depictions of those times. |
| times, clothes very much represented a social standing, | | | | The Chinese are known to have invented the silk fiber |
| as the mightiest and strongest men wore the skin of | | | | around 3000BC. Traces of silk are found from |
| the wildest beasts. Archaeological evidences prove | | | | different historic sites in China. Due to the invention of |
| the use of clothing and textile as early as 170,000 | | | | Silk in China and the production of cotton on the Indus |
| years ago. The clothes at that time were wrapped | | | | River, the trade of textile and fabric was very |
| and tied around the body rather than stitched in a | | | | common on the Silk Road. This quickly made clothing |
| proper manner. However, the very first sewing | | | | sewed out of weaved fabric a common necessity |
| needles found are of about 40,000 years ago. This | | | | around the world. |
| suggests that people started to stitch their clothes by | | | | During the classical ages, the most fashionable kind of |
| that time, and this fact also leads to an assumption | | | | clothing in the west was tunics and togas worn by |
| that some kind of fiber was already discovered. | | | | Greeks and Romans. However, it was in the medieval |
| The date of the earliest fiber use and discovery is | | | | times that fashion became an essential element of |
| disputed yet, but archaeologists have found a strand | | | | society and class. People started to wear different |
| of dyed flax fiber in a cave in Georgia. This strand of | | | | cloths according to their social ranks and standing. The |
| dyed fiber dates back to 36,000BP. A 25,000 years | | | | finest fashion was for the lords and socialites, while |
| old statue of Venus is the very first figurine of anyone | | | | peasants and the poor used to wear plain clothes. |
| depicted with clothing. Clothing includes all the | | | | Then, came the Middle Ages when fashion was |
| accessories such as hat and belts. Well made sewing | | | | something that everyone was following, and the fact is |
| needles and weaving sticks belonging to the same era | | | | still the same. Clothing is not only a necessity now, but |
| were also discovered in Eastern and Western Europe. | | | | a lot more than that. It well defines a person's overall |
| It is assumed that the very first fabric to be used was | | | | personality and it is pretty much enough to change that |
| felt, but it was a bit rougher than today's felt. The | | | | too. |
| woven textile however, is Flax. It was cultivated in the | | | | |